A Stratellite is a rigid framed airship that hovers in a fixed position in the lower stratosphere and carries one or more repeaters to create wireless communication networks. (Continued...)
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With 10,000 devices in the field, spread across 50 train stations, the case study for mobile applications deployment at Nederlandse Spoorwegen (Dutch Rail) is an excellent example of a strategic investment in mobile technologies.
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Recent events have airlines issuing new rules governing carry-on items. New mandates now force us to check our laptops as baggage. Here, Craig Mathias looks at some things we need to be aware of before we check our laptops and what we need to do to ...
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Nokia has made no secret of the fact that it covets RIM's BlackBerry market. While Nokia has always done well in the corporate space with its standard cellular phone models, it was caught sleeping by the Blackberry boom. Its tardy response comes in ...
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Mobile managers face a tough choice when weighing which mobile platform or operating system to deploy. We've assembled a team of experts and asked them to weigh the good and bad of each mobile platform to help you choose the one that's right for ...
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What's particularly compelling about the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet is that it's not only the first to be billed as an "Internet Tablet," but also its software is built entirely from open source components. Parts of it come as a result of direct ...
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At this month's Black Hat conference, a presentation centered around BBProxy, a hacking program that can take advantage of the trust relationship between a BlackBerry and an enterprise's internal server to hijack network connections.

PDA VPN clients have been around for nearly as long as PDAs themselves. From the simple PPTP client found in early Windows HPCs to standard IPsec clients embedded in today's Symbian and Windows Mobile smartphones, solutions abound for tunneling from...
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Just as 3G starts to gain a foothold with EV-DO and HSDPA from the major cellular carriers, Sprint Nextel ups the ante with the first 4G wireless broadband network to deploy in the U.S. Not surprisingly, WiMAX is at the core of it.
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We've recently seen many high-profile incidents regarding potentially compromised data on stolen notebooks. In this tip, Craig Mathias explains why IT managers need to take a very proactive look not just at the technologies of mobile computing, but...
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The Generic Access Network (GAN) is an evolving wireless communications system in which mobile phone sets function seamlessly between local area networks (LANs) and wide-area networks (WANs)... (Continued)
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